Pearls of the Faith or Islam's Rosary Being The Ninety-Nine Beautiful Names of Allah (Asmca-El-Husnca): With Comments in Verse from Various Oriental Sources (As Made by an Indian Mussulman): By Edwin Arnold |
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Al-Khâfiz
Al-Khâfiz! the “Abaser!” praise hereby
Him Who doth mock at earthly majesty.
Him Who doth mock at earthly majesty.
Heard ye of Nimrûd? Cities fell before him;
Shinar, from Accad to the Indian Sea,
His garden was; as God, men did adore him;
Queens were his slaves, and kings his vassalry.
Shinar, from Accad to the Indian Sea,
His garden was; as God, men did adore him;
Queens were his slaves, and kings his vassalry.
Eminent on his car of carven brass,
Through foeman's blood nave-deep he drave his wheel;
And not a lion in the river-grass
Could keep its shaggy fell from Nimrûd's steel.
Through foeman's blood nave-deep he drave his wheel;
And not a lion in the river-grass
Could keep its shaggy fell from Nimrûd's steel.
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But he scorned Allah, schemed a tower to invade Him;
Dreamed to scale Heaven, and measure might with God;
Heaped high the foolish clay wherefrom We made him,
And built thereon his seven-fold house of the clod.
Dreamed to scale Heaven, and measure might with God;
Heaped high the foolish clay wherefrom We made him,
And built thereon his seven-fold house of the clod.
Therefore, the least Our messengers among,
We sent;—a grey gnat dancing in the reeds:
Into his ear she crept, buzzing,—and stung.
So perished mighty Nimrûd and his deeds.
We sent;—a grey gnat dancing in the reeds:
Into his ear she crept, buzzing,—and stung.
So perished mighty Nimrûd and his deeds.
O Thou Abaser of all pride!
Mighty Thou art, and none beside.
Mighty Thou art, and none beside.
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